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Popular former Gov. Brian Schweitzer said yesterday that he will not run for Montana’s open U.S.
Senate seat in 2014, an announcement that complicates Democrats’ efforts to retain their Senate
majority in next year’s elections.

Schweitzer said he doesn’t want to leave Montana and go to Washington, D.C. He had been
considered the Democrats’ best candidate for retaining the seat being vacated by Sen. Max Baucus
next year.

Schweitzer said he felt compelled to consider the race only because many in his party said they
needed him to run.